Download or read book A Blindefellows Chronicle written by Auriel Roe and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At midday on 31st August, Sedgewick, the new history master, arrives at Blindefellows, former charity school for poor, blind boys, now a second division private school for anyone who can pay. The naïve newcomer is quickly taken under the wing of the rumbustious, philandering Japes, master of physics, who soon becomes something of a mentor, though not in an academic sense. A Blindefellows Chronicle follows the adventures of Sedgewick, Japes and a handful of other unmarried faculty at an obscure West Country boarding school including the closeted headmaster, Reverend Hareton, stalwart Matron Ridgeway and loathsome librarian, Fairchild.
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Download or read book Let the Swine Go Forth written by Auriel Roe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jill the Reckless written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although P.G. Wodehouse's woebegone protagonists are usually young men, in Jill the Reckless the master of British humor turns his attention to the fairer sex. Jill Mariner's young adulthood is beset by an array of mishaps and misfortunes -- but will she work her way out of the wreckage and find true love? If you're already a Wodehouse fan, you can probably guess the correct answer, but dip into Jill the Reckless to hear the tale told as only he can tell it.
Download or read book A Damsel in Distress written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.
Download or read book Blackwatertown written by Paul Waters and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Extremely intriguing with intricate twists and turns' Frederick Forsyth When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother – even if the murderer is inside the police. But a lot can happen in a week. Over seven days Macken falls in love, uncovers dark family secrets, accidentally starts a war and is hailed a hero and branded a traitor. When Blackwatertown explodes into violence, who can he trust? And is betrayal the only way to survive?
Download or read book Rumours of Spring written by Farah Bashir and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A terrifying yet tender account of a girlhood spent under near-constant siege.' Madhuri Vijay, author of The Far Field 'Extraordinary - this memoir of growing up in Kashmir in the 1990s is illuminating, heartbreaking, and beautifully told.' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire 'This is an unforgettable work that refuses silence. It is an urgent, brave call for justice.' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King 'Page after page, Farah Bashir juxtaposes moments of heart-stopping terror and beauty in a stunning memoir of life and love under a bloody military occupation.' Mirza Waheed, author of Tell Her Everything 'I couldn't put it down, and even after it had ended, the people and their stories - wonderful, horrific, familiar and unfathomable - stayed textured and formidable in my mind.' Jennifer Croft, author of Homesick 'A beautifully tender and often heart-stopping memoir of growing up in a world that is spinning out of control.' Mahesh Rao, author of Polite Society Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in the 1990s. As Indian troops and militants battle across the cityscape and violence becomes the new normal, a young schoolgirl finds that ordinary tasks - studying for exams, walking to the bus stop, combing her hair, falling asleep - are riddled with anxiety and fear. With haunting simplicity, Farah Bashir captures moments of vitality and resilience from her girlhood amidst the increasing trauma and turmoil of passing years - secretly dancing to pop songs on banned radio stations; writing her first love letter; going to the cinema for the first time - with haunting simplicity. This deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir portrays how territorial conflict surreptitiously affects everyday lives in Kashmir.
Download or read book The Rainbow Acres written by Simrita Dhir and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1916, seventeen-year-old Kishan Singh is euphoric in his village Noor Mahal in Punjab, British India as he dreams of going to college, landing a government job and marrying his heartthrob Roop. Summer flies in with promise but ends in disaster when heavy rains flood the fields, wrecking the cotton crop and triggering influenza which leaves behind a trail of dead villagers. Kishan Singh’s dreams are ruthlessly washed away. Devastated, he sets off on a life-threatening voyage across two oceans for a distant and unknown land. On a cataclysmic day in 1919, Sophia’s idyllic world in Guadalajara, Mexico, falls apart when she becomes a hapless victim to the ravages of the Mexican Revolution. She battles hunger, poverty and near prostitution before embarking on a perilous night journey across the border. Will their paths cross in the land of opportunities that is overrun with racial and class barriers? The Rainbow Acres is a moving saga of migration, selfless love, fortitude, friendship, and the quest for land and identity, set against the backdrop of old Punjab, early California and revolution-torn Mexico.
Download or read book Sunset at Blandings written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diabolical Club written by Stevyn Colgan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange things are going on in Black Dog Wood... A blindfolded skeleton has been unearthed, there have been sightings of some kind of monster, and rumours abound of naughty goings-on at night. And then the local MP, Sir Giles Luscott-Whorne, is accused of murder. Giles’s best chance to prove his innocence lies with retired police detective Frank Shunter. Can he discover whodunit? And what connects all of these curious events to a long-lost manuscript by crime author Agnes Crabbe? In this sequel to A Murder to Die For, Stevyn Colgan once again takes us back to South Herewardshire for a comedy of murderous proportions.
Download or read book Uneasy Money written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. Uneasy Money sees the hard-up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune, while in Cocktail Time events turn on the fate of a filmscript. Spring Fever is a light-hearted comedy involving love and various complications.
Download or read book Wodehouse written by Robert McCrum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had an extraordinary Broadway career, wrote 90 novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves and the Empress of Blandings. McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and shadows of a gilded life.
Download or read book Quick Service written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1954 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, declares it inedible, and sets out to complain to Duff and Trotter, one of London's most exclusive merchants
Download or read book Bill the Bloodhound written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young detective Henry Pifield Rice is in love with Alice Weston, a chorus girl, but she won't marry anyone who isn't in show business like her. And now he's tasked with shadowing a member of the company... This is the original American version of the story, published in The Century magazine in 1915, accompanied by three illustrations by Arthur William Brown, the Dean of American Illustrators.
Download or read book Wodehouse at War written by Iain Sproat and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Attractor of Chaos written by Abhinav Singh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to protect his pregnant wife, scientist Ashwin Rathore gets killed – unexpectedly and unwantedly. A deadly force lurks in the murk that wants her too, but why? Is it because she works for and with the military and Intelligence teams in the country, or is it because she knows something that no one else does?
Download or read book Bankerupt written by Ravi Subramanian and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A university is an institution for higher education and research. It can also be a place where academic brilliance leads to overinflated egos, bitter politics and finally, murder. Cirisha Narayanan, a professor who has risen meteorically, stumbles upon a cryptic message. Aditya Raisinghania, her banker husband, sets up a highly innovative financial hoax. Her profiteering father harvests Australia’s largest bird—the emu—in India. The US elections are on and the debate on gun control has reached a fever pitch. Set in Mumbai, Coimbatore and Boston, Ravi Subramanian creates an impeccably researched world where everyone has a motive to kill. Nothing is as it seems in this cunningly vicious thriller where the plot turns on a dime.
